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TIME.com: Silvio Berlusconi's center-right Forza Italia party looks to have swept to a decisive victory in Italy's election. Why has the country's political preference swung back from the left to the right...
...Greg Burke:The primary reason for Berlusconi's clear-cut victory is that the mainstream party of the left ran without concluding an election pact with the smaller parties of the left, particularly the reformed communists. The left won the last election precisely because they had an agreement with the communists, but this time the left vote was fractured. That was the central reason for the change. The final results are not yet in, so it's difficult to judge, but many on the left are saying they still won the popular vote. Italy's system is very strange - last...
...vote swing is so narrow each time, how did Berlusconi managed to win what appears to be a stable majority in both houses...
...scale of Berlusconi's victory may be a product of the fact that his center-right Forza Italia grew at the expense of far-right parties such as the Northern Leagues and the National Alliance. Last time he was in power, his majority depended on the support of the Northern Leagues, and that proved to be his downfall. This time, Forza Italia appears to have emerged as the largest party in Italy, having replaced the traditional Christian Democratic Party as the bulwark of the right. Although he still has the Northern Leagues in his coalition, their share of the vote...
...Silvio Berlusconi used to say he loved Sabina Guzzanti's TV impersonations of him. He may have changed his mind after her last couple of outings on the political satire show L'Ottavo Nano (The Eighth Dwarf). Guzzanti's version of the media mogul-turned-politician is dismissive of immigrants, throws bricks at passersby, boasts of having bought Italian democracy and, naturally, gets a custard pie in his face. The 37-year-old Guzzanti says her satire is "a way of showing people they're not alone in noticing the lack of logic in Italian politics." She has made...